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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Learning Curve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sedaris' attempt to recruit his guitar teacher for his jingle-singing act results in
(a) Understanding.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Comaraderie.
(d) Rejection.

2. While Sedaris has been preoccupied with tanning, his father has been preoccupied with
(a) His fear of the ocean.
(b) The price of beachfront property.
(c) The Miss Emollient Pageant.
(d) Scientific questions.

3. Why is Sedaris offered a job teaching a writing workshop?
(a) He has teaching experience.
(b) He is friends with the department chair.
(c) The scheduled professor quit at the last moment.
(d) He has been published several times.

4. Sedaris discussed his speech therapy sessions
(a) With other speech therapy students.
(b) Only with his mother.
(c) Only with his father.
(d) With his sisters.

5. Two extreme facets of Paul's personality are
(a) Eating candy and refusing to work.
(b) Drinking Mountain Dew and wearing make-up.
(c) Fighting and swearing.
(d) Studying and reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sedaris' interest in science extended only to

2. Sedaris suggests his brother is radically different from his other siblings because

3. Ironically, Sedaris and his siblings mock the fisherman's tan skin because

4. What passion does Sedaris' father attempt to share with his children?

5. Sedaris' mother connects most closely with

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